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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

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. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in acco...more

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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

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It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all ove...more

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Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of differ...more

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Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our child...more

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Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least materi...more

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I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the word poe...more

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My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those ...more

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The breakdown of mummies and daddies was an important part of lesbian relationships in the Bagatelle...For some of us, however, role-playing reflected...more

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Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stret...more